Re: health warning (Do Not Open)

You'll have to be patient with me, John, they're like an addiction...

(Restraining myself at this very moment. It really is hard).

Jim

John Gedsudski wrote:

> >I'd like to add, though, that Matthew has a legitimate concern. My
> >girlfriend is a FREAK about grammar. Her High School teachers would fail
> >her
> >for a single sentence fragment in any of her papers (not fail her for the
> >class, but for that paper). She will AGONIZE over her sentences, she will
> >SUFFER for them, but seldom, seldom, will she WRITE them -- getting her to
> >finish something she's written is like pulling teeth sometimes. She
> >sometimes sounds like the purpose of good writing is to follow grammatical
> >rules rather than to communicate, instead of thinking that the purpose of
> >grammatical rules is to help communication.
> >
> >Our most bitter argument was over my use of a comma in something I'd
> >written. I felt like the sentence needed a pause. She said my use of the
> >comma was incorrect. I showed her in a grammar that a comma is an option
> >in
> >that situation. The comma is now one of those subjects we try to
> >discreetly
> >avoid.
> >
> >Usually.
> >
> >She feels convinced that my grammar was wrong :). Or has blocked what it
> >said out of her memory.
> >
> >Jim
>
> Dear Load Jim,
>
> While we are on the subjec of grammatical rules, or have at least broached
> it, must I remind you how repellent those smiley faces are?
> I just can't stop picturing your penmanship as one plagued by infectious
> smatterings of heart dotted "i's" and wavy crossed "t's". Please, once more,
> I implore you, dispense with the pithy expressions.Also,
> your girlfriend is off-base. Your grammar was not wrong, it is just
> maladjusted. A few more more readings of I'm O.K Your Ok and a pich of
> Thackeray will suffice as a treatment, for now.
>
> Yours,
>
> John Gedsudski, m.m.
> Adjunct Professor of Judges
> Philistia Community College
> 507 Boorish Drive
> NY,NY
>
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